School attendance: interdistrict attendance.

Existing law authorizes the governing boards of 2 or more school districts to enter into an agreement for the interdistrict attendance of pupils who are residents of the school districts. If either school district fails to approve the interdistrict attendance of a pupil, or in the case of the failure or refusal of the school districts to enter into an agreement, existing law authorizes the person having legal custody of the pupil to appeal to the county board of education in accordance with a prescribed procedure. Existing law requires the county board of education to determine, within 30 calendar days after the appeal is filed, whether the pupil should be permitted to attend in the school district in which the pupil desires to attend and the applicable period of time. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that school districts and county boards of education use their best efforts to expeditiously process interdistrict attendance appeals. The bill also would require, until July 1, 2015, that, in a class 1 county, which is defined in existing law as a county with 1994–95 average daily attendance of more than 500,000, or a class 2 county, which is defined in existing law as a county with 1994–95 average daily attendance of at least 180,000 but less than 500,000, the county board of education determine whether the pupil should be permitted to attend the school district in which the pupil desires to attend and the applicable period of time within 40 schooldays after the appeal is filed rather than 30 calendar days after the appeal is filed.